Prashant Chandran Email & Phone Number

o Senior Portfolio Manager, Global Head of Derivatives, Key Member of Investment and Risk committees.o Member of the Investment Advisory Committee - debates, shapes, and presents firm’s global macro views.o Key member for firm-wide risk and operational committees.o Successfully built, grew, and manage unconstrained and alternative products, including Western Asset's Macro Opportunities and Tail Protection, with total AUM $18 billion.o Close collaboration with marketing, product, and publications teams, with multiple client presentations a week at investment committees, conferences, panels, publications, and retail forums.o Global Head of Derivatives - Led team of portfolio managers and analysts, with mandate to provide research, trade ideas, modeling, education, and management of firm’s Exchange-traded, and OTC derivatives.o Strong expertise in interest rate, credit, commodity, equity, volatility, and index-linked derivatives.o Deep understanding of cross-asset correlations, risk modeling, and tail risk management.o Lectured on credit derivatives and cross-asset volatility at CalTech and USC.

Listed skills include Portfolio Management, Derivatives, Financial Modeling, Capital Markets, and 3 others.